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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1922)
t/ * J. S. iW-rist. fifty, a brakeman on an Oregon electric passenger train ROBERTS BROS. operating between Portland and Sa lem, wai ound dead In an ice and storage p.ant at Salem, following u moonshin .iquor party. Local and Long Distance I-’Ine weather and the strong de- Principal Events of the Wee mand for logs have induced tho log H AUCUN (J -• Briefly Sketched for Infor ging operators in the lower Columbia “Prompt, Satisfactory Service 4 river district to force operations to Our Motto. mation of Our Readers. A Com fortab! s Pìsce capacity. Every logging c imp In th it section Is running, the one ban lit p JJ PI- cp orden at ri -cd -nee, fir! Eighteen cases of scarlet fever have being the scarcity of loggers. F. E. Mamite , Prot á door souih i f Hatten Hotel been q rarrintin'-d in Bend. The annual meeting of tire Western A total of 1025 new students en Forestry and Conservation associa tered the Oregon Agricultural college tion, which will bring t fiber prom this fall. inent forestry officials and experta John Glldorn, for 68 years a resi from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, . Brvan s dent of Marlon county, died at Salem Montana, Utah and northern Califor- at the age of 88. nia, will bo held In Portland Friday Miss Ulina Aldridge, 18, died at and Saturday. Haines from strychnine poison taken Representative McArthur has an with suicidal Intent. nounced the appointment of Lynn M. LAUNDRY AGENCY Tim Women’s Welfare club at Fos Reed and Clarence S. Howe, both oi sil is making preparations for an old- Portland, as cadets from the third fashioned community Christmas tree. Oregon district to tho United States fl ■ N03LE DUMA»' At a special meeting of the city military academy in lieu of Carl'r B. « on Are Next! council plans were made'to establish Magruder and George C. Merger Vemo:ti? V.rito; .a a chlorine system for the Canby water both of Portland, who are to bo grt Oregon works. uated in June, 1923. * « ♦ ** •* 9- » " Thero were two fatalities in Or A recent census shows 7026 chil dren of school age in Clatsop county, duo to Industrial accidents during th< 4177 of whom are attending the public week ending November 16, according to a report prepared by the state in schools. More than 80 fruit growers attend dustrial accident commission. The ed the pruning school conducted by victims were Robert Hiilstadt, choker the Umatilla county farm bureau at setter, Deer Island, and William Bru der, mechanic, Salem. A» total of 534 Millon and Freewater. au i EiUnates Furntshe Coof ctionery for Ladi Ilio dir ctors of the Jackson County accidents wero reported. A, ..-.its F r Saille Lu uber Co. Pool Room in Connection ariti > ¡i.'í’i <nn train-.. g. Fair association contemplate the hold John C. Kendall, president of the IELLÜW HR LUMBER Ctndi.'S, Soft Drink», les C*eam ing of a two-day automobile and motor Marshfield chamber of commerce, has Coffee, S-ndw ch.s, rie, e c w w W 'T n -y : fff ; presented to tho Roseburg chamber kF. cycle meet next June. Î DIED ’EM At a special election held at Beaver- of commerce plans for a big celebrg NEW ITXTUKfc'i I n the taxpayers voted a levy of $8000 thm to he held at Coos Bay during’ McG v/n Ct Anae ? son bonds for the purpose of erecting an the latter part of July of next year, A. E. FENNER Vu’itonl i, Oregon. to dedicate the Roseburg-Coos Bay other public school building. highway and to stimulate interest in ’.-»SZÏÏaàX ’Z - ■■ . James Wisener, Herman Markman and Murphy Brothers ot Freewater the development of the western part have sold their crops of 3000 tons of of Oregon. That it pays to maintain a traffic alfalfa at a price of $10 per ton in the officer In Lane county is shown by stack. At least three rural school districts the amount of fines collected during in Lane county are contemplating the the past seven months from violators erection of larger school houses at of the highway laws. Sheriff Stlckels. once, according to E. J. Moore, county reporting to the county budget c .m- " <• ;i i V i - In f X ;>• i i inittee, said $2322.70 In fines collected ■ -superintendent. Pendleton’s municipal septic tank from drivers of automobiles and h t >.• Il Ill i and sewage disposal plant will be com trucks in that time had been turned ru pi in Dieted in December. The plant will over to the county treasurer, Discouraged by failure to get fair co.it approximately $68,000 and the • I ■ - -ititi r 11 I> All Sizes and Priced Absolut ly Right. returns on their investments, or to property $20,000. • Il i ;l I.Ill »ui h Oregon hops are selling readily on dispose of either grain, hay or live- stock at a profit, no less than six a very steady market. Between 1500 and 2000 bales changed hands in the prominent and formerly prosperous past week or ten days at prices rang ranchers in the Haines section of the Powder River valley have held public ing from 7 to 11 cents. Wilt Work on the new Salem hospital, auctions of their stock and farm equipment and abandoned what they discontinued, last spring for want of < I f IH IV 111 finances, was resumed last week, the term a futile effort longer to succeed money having been pledged for com at ranching. Due undoubtedly to the car abort- pletion of the first unit. Jack'McIver, a laborer at the new age, production of the 143 mills re- highway bridge at Winchester, was T rting to the West Coast Lumber drowned when a boat in which he and mens association for the week ending two companions were crossing the November 11 fell 2 per cent below sbcrx cregon Umpqua river capsized in midstream. normal. Now business was 5 per cent Clarence- Smith, a farmer residing below production and shipments were & ' I A on south Deer creek, about ten miles 7 per cent below new business. _In 45 coat f lb si-burg, was killed when a weeks production has been 3,802,536,- wngonl ad of posts turned over on top 279 feet; new business, 3.509,272,274 of him, crushing him to death in Lot; shipments, 3.535,130,795 feet. Approximately 137,000 pounds of stantly. Fourth-class postmasters have been English walnuts have been received appointed In Oregon as follows: Cove at tho w ar- houses of the Oregon Grow Orchard. Mrs. Henrietta Addis; Crow. ers’ Cooperative association of Salem Church ('. Sturtevant; Perrydale, Siet this y.ar, according to a report pre Van Staaveren; Sixes, Mrs. Sadie M. pared by the officials of the associa (i Ji N : -V in Attendance. tion. There also have been received Spurgeon. A proposed amendment to the state 3000 pounds of filberts. The growers Su jçiu.’l .in i Obstetrical Cases a >pec constitution providing for sirtglo tax have be n offered approximately 20 tn Oregon has been filed with the sec cents a pound for their product, an 1 ust Grove, Oregon retary of state. The measure will go w ll receive an aggregate of $30,000. The assessment of all property in before the voters at tlie general elec on a Brunswick Phono- Oregon, together with the ratio that the tion in 1324. Residents of upper Terrace street, tax : >!e property in the counties will just within the. city limits of Ashland, bear to the full cash value in 1923, are much perplexed as to what pro based on the 1922 tax rolls, has been cedure they must take regarding deer determined by the state tax commis that nightly invade their orchards sioner. The assessment, according to and gardens. the report prepared by the commis customer, The Oregon potato crop this y'ear sioner, will be approximately $8,000,- is estimated by F. L. Kent, agricultural 000 lower than for the present year, cn-h, yoiu far»- t > Hiln- statistician of the department of agri while the ratios will be practically culture, at 4,830,000 bushels, produc the same as fixed for the year 1922. boro will be refunded ed on 46,000 acres, or a yield of 105 The most drastic reduction in assess ments is in Multnomah county. bushels per acre. The construction of a $5,000,000 Members of the Willamette Valley Flax and Hemp Growers' Co-operative hydro-electric plant at Reclamation association must comply with their power site on the Deschutes river, Hillsboro, <mtracts, according to a decree hand was forecast at Portland by Guy W. Oregon ed down by Judge Bingham in the cir Talbot, president of the Pacific Power FN & Light company, in a statement an cuit court at Salem. The Salem city council passed an nouncing the corporation^ plans for —-s ordinance authorizing the sale of a new link in the electrical energy bonds In the nmount of $13,500 for chain of the northwest. The site of the purchase of additional fire-fighting tho project is 15 miles south of the I equipment. The bonds were voted at confluence of the Deschutes and Co lumbia rivers and the company has n a recent city election. Rev. Peter R. Burnett, pioneer min filed application for the use of the site Will build your Building, furnishing all plans ister of the Christian church, having and the developinent of 10,000 horse lived in Oregon since 1846, died in Eu power. Preliminary surveys and tests for s trne, for a cost of 5 per cent for platis gene at. the age of 80 years as a re already have been made. and 5 per cent of actual cost of construction. Receipts on the Columbia river in- sult of injuries incurred when he was Will guarantee all our estimated pi ices. Will Xeri’tate bridge during the last ten struck by an automobile. Leip you finance. e All records in the cost of combat months amount to $234,000, according ing forest fires In the Santhun na to a statement prepared for the bridge 1 BUILDING SERVICES and JOHN tional reserve wero broken during twinmlssioners. This is $23,000 less J MANAGEMENT tOI McKay Bldg tho last season, when only $378.12 was iban for the same period in 1921. The Phone, Broadway 7B«5 Portland, Oregon expended, according to tho annual re Pacific highway north of Vancouver, Wash., was closed last summer and port. of C. C. Hall, supervisor. V alter M. Pierce, democrat, defeat truffle used the ferries at Kalama and 'd Ben W. Olcott, republican, for gov Kelso, The receipts for October ernor nt tho recent general election by amounted to $23,038, which equals the [XX'TORS KAUFFMAN and TAYLOR a majority of 34,237 votes. This was previous record for this year. Clarke Physicians and Surgeons announced by the secretary of state county's sharo of the bridge income Phone 922. Postofticc Box L after complete official returns on state since January 1 is 880,007, while Mult DR. H. KAUFFMAN offices had been received from every nomah county received $120,010. The DR. C. L. TAYLOR Forest Grove, Ore. Residence Phone 0283 Rssidenee Phon« 883 .county In Oregon. Mr. Pierce carried operati: '■ experses in the ten month P‘ rlnil amounted to $33.9”4. 23 of the 36 counties in the state. COMPARE OF GENERAL INTEREST ¡3 TRANSFER CO Ver: onia Hotel OUR GOODS AND t PRICES Contasti^ B i ber Shop It’s all we Ask Carpenter ¥/c WE RE FOR VERNONIA ergersosi . ibis® Contactors ros LIGHT UP! i The Largest and Best line of Flashlights and Batteries in the Valiev THE HAZELWOOD Confections, lets, Cigar Tobaccos, Magazines ■ he Hi.: Pianos and Organs Terms or Cash The Hillsboro Pharmacy The Stewart Building Service Company STEWART ero Pharmacy Go c Peritanti? 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